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The union cabinet chaired by Mr. Narendra Modi approved the national education policy today. This change aims at making a better education for the school and higher secondary classes. New Educational Policy (NEP) replaces the thirty four years old educational policy established in 1986. The new policy is based on equity, affordability, accountability aand quality. It's agenda is all igneous toward 2030 sustainable development in order to change India to a vibrant  knowledge society and a global knowledge super power according to the needs of the 21st century. It also aims at bringing out unique capabilities of a student within their educational level. Italy a universal amd a flexible way of education where even dropouts can hold back. There shall be innovative techniques amd a better infrastructure for educational system for pre and higher secondary education. There will be multiple pathways in learning both formal as well as informal modes of education. The government will follow ...

Selma Lagerlof through her  story "the Rattrap" has tried to convey us the psychological insight of the human mind. This story tells us about greed and avarice that humans have for materialistic things. The essence of the story is humourous, philosophical as well as historical.  The story revolves around a poor vagabond who made rattraps from the begged materials. He was a wanderer who struggled for living but later resort to begging and stealing for some extra income. One day he got engrossed in his own thoughts wand was surprised to think that the whole world itself was a rattrap. It lured people with riches and joys and all the materialistic happiness. But these were baits to entrap people. The misery and discontentment in the life of vagabond made him think ill of this world.  One day, he stopped at a little gray cottage by the roadside. The owner of the house was a ma  without wife and children. He agreed to give him shelter. Delighted to have a company, the gen...

 Deep waters written by William Douglas is a story which teaches us that all we have to fear is fear itself. We are supposed to be strong and move towards our fear fearlessly so that fear itself leaves us and does not dare to come back again. The story depicts how the narrator had been afraid of water due to his past horrible experience. That fear he felt when he was ten or eleven years old came running behind him and how after lots of struggle, patience and hardwork he finials overcomes his fear challenging it to never come back again. Through this story he teaches us to do the same. The story begins with Douglas conveying about his past that how he had decided to learn to swim in Y.M.C.A. pool in Yakima. The river was unpredictable due to which his mother warned him not to go to the river however the pool was safe as it was shallow and only 2 to 3 feet deep and 9 feet deep at the deep end. He tells us how he started fearing water when he was small only 3 or 4 years old in Califor...

The lost spring by Anees Jung depicts us with the various desires and wishes of poor children which remain unfulfilled due to their family conditions and problems. They have various curiosities and desires within them which remains unfulfilled. In the story we see how there are two boys who has their own problems and aspirations. They try to fulfill them yet gets disappointment or huge struggle unlike the lucky children. The strong talks about two boys one named Saheb and another named as Mukesh. The story is divided into two halves one which deals with Saheb's life and another with Mukesh.  " sometimes I find a rupee in the garbage." This is said by Saheb-E-Alam or Saheb who lives in Seemapuri with his refugee family from Dhaka. Their feilds and houses had been continuously swept away by floods due to which they travels to India and lived in   Seemapuri an outscort of Delhi. Saheb belongs was happy with his free life of a ragpicker where he would excitedly dig the garbag...

THE LAST LESSON: The last lesson by Alphonse Daudet conveys us the importance and power of our mother language. It also conveys the importance of freedom and self decision making. In the story we can see how the boy Franz who has least interest in studies gets a thunderclap when he comes to know about his last French lesson that day. The story  takes us to the era of the Franco Prussian war where France had been defeated by Prussia led by Bismarck. The districts of Alsace and Lorraine was handed over to the winning nation. And through this story the author wants to convey us with the various messages as mentioned above.  The first paragraph deals with Franz's feelings towards his studies and school. Here we also get hold of an important character in the story his teacher Mr. M. Hamel. He had said he would be asking questions on the French participles and Franz didn't know a word about it. This was holding him back away from school. He also thinks of running way and enjoying hi...

English as a universal language has a great importance in our lives. To maintain a good status in the fast changing world, we are to learn English properly which can help us stand strong in means of communication between other people. So here are four easy techniques and steps which, if followed can require less effort in improving our universal language: 1) WATCH ENGLISH MOVIES/SHOWS/CARTOONS: The best way to improve English can be such to watch English shows and movies, and small children can go for  cartoons, which can seem easier and can also relax the human brain but can side by side improve one's hearing and speaking skills, it basically improves one's pronounciation. 2) INCULCATE SOME PERSONAL HABITS:  Personal habits include reading horoscopes, newspapers, magazines, comics, and story books and many more. Some people even do write diaries at the end of everyday. These are habits which are not tough but is easy and interesting which slowly and steadily improves one's...

In today's world education in India means a mere process of gaining higher percentages. You are judged according to your percentage to become an intelligent or a dull student. Well according to me it should not be so.  Students are forced to take subjects which they are not interested in just because their parents wants them to do so. Students are given a task of forceful studying when they are not interested in studying for longer hours. My point is, each and every person has a beautiful talent within them we need to identify them and work accordingly. Higher percentage is only not the solution and low percentage is not the end of the world , parents must identify his/her pupil's/pupils' interests and encourage them to move towards the fields they like and deserve so that it can lead them towards a brighter, beautiful, success-full and a happier future. Base line is, that, education must not only demand for higher percentage. It must not be burden on the students when it...